On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:59:11PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > WHat's the exact reason USB2 still uses Giant on TTY related drivers? > Couldn't it just use the per-TTY mutex? If not, maybe it should create a > custom system-wide mutex, instead of using Giant?
I think this is mostly leftover crud from the pre-TTY-MP safe days. As long as it uses the proper TTY interfaces, nothing should stop it from ditching Giant. -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Chance favours the prepared mind" - Penn _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
